SOLO EXHIBITION | JACKSON HOLE, WY
Altamira Fine Art is pleased to present a new exhibition for Jackson-based artist September Vhay. Essence will feature works in oil and charcoal, ranging in size from 12 x 12 to 40 x 78 inches.
Join us for an Artist Reception at the gallery Friday evening, June 22nd from 5:30-7:30pm.
Carbon plus paper: the simple equation that yields a charcoal drawing; the simple equation that September Vhay makes transcendent in her summer exhibition, Essence. By her hand, a leopard appaloosa becomes a massive study in graphic abstraction, each spot a meditation on shape and subtlety. Sans color, the paint horse becomes a homage to composition and value-formal characteristics often overshadowed by their flashy counterparts, color and subject. Not by Vhay: She bears witness to the episodes in nature when expression and composition come into immaculate, ephemeral alignment. As they did in an alfalfa field on her parents' ranch in Nevada: Vhay watched as two mule deer fawns frolicked after their mother. A low fence, hardly an impediment for her graceful stride, stopped the spindly pair. Quintessentially curious, they studied the blockade in front of them. Vhay held her breath. Then one, from a standstill, bounded over. A pause before the second followed and the two resumed their maternal pursuit. That breathless moment is what Vhay chose to capture on canvas, when the fawns' curiosity suffused the scene, even their stance. "There is a moment when I fall in love with what I'm seeing. That's when I know there is a painting."
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